on Sunday 09/21/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:32:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:49:13 Johann Schmitz wrote:
> > > Same Problem here on amd64.
> > >
> > > John covici wrote:
> > > | I did an emerge --sync followed by update-eix and got the following
> > > | error from update-eix:
> > > |
> > > | Reading Portage settings ..
> > > | Building database (/var/cache/eix) ..
> > > | [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat)
> > > | Reading 50%terminate called after throwing an instance of
> > > | 'std::out_of_range'
> > > | what(): basic_string::compare
> > > | Aborted
> >
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238216
>
> Further workaround:
> The problem is apparently caused by peculiar version numbers in
> media-fonts/ja-ipafonts
>
> Delete $PORTDIR/metadata/cache/media-fonts/ja-ipafonts*
> and rerun update-eix. It will complete.
>
> The metadata files will be replaced on the next sync by which time there
> will
> hopefully be an update that fixes the underlying problem.
After my last message I saw that and a plan to release a 13.5 which
should fix the problem, so I may do that as well.
Thanks.
--
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you spend it?
John Covici
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